Ace Trailing Plants For Outdoor Hanging Baskets

This newcomer to the Cool Wave pansy line-up celebrates the season with classic fall hues.

Trailing plants for outdoor hanging baskets. Its a very tidy plant with a wonderful honey-like scent. Sweet alyssum prefers cool weather but you can keep it blooming in a container if you give it regular water. The long trailing clusters of flowers add big interest as they spill down and over the side.

Dichondra is a superb plant with tiny heart-shaped shining silver leaves. Cool Wave pansies naturally cascade and trail over basket edges creating a lush bloom-a-licious look. Wave petunia is the queen of hanging baskets and flowering trailing plants.

From zone 3 to 9 creeping jenny can be a great plant to grow in a hanging basket. If you love the look of trailing plants in outdoor hanging baskets opt for a wave petunia. The pretty leaves have a marbling pattern with various shades of green and white.

These long slender stems are flexible which makes them perfect for hanging baskets. It is commonly known as the Rattail Cactus because of its distinctive long trailing stems which can grow to up to 4 feet in length and ½ inch in diameter. Watch the foliage on this plant because it is prone to rust and leaf spot.

The fat trailing stems prefer full sun to show lush and waxy deep green or variegated foliage and year-round red daisy-like flowers. Under the right conditions the creeping foliage provides dense trailing stems. Their trumpet-like flowers come in a wide range of colours including purple pink red yellow orange and white.

The problem is that it gets mildew especially if the potting mix gets a bit dry. These stems can simply hover over the baskets. Dorotheanthus-bellidiformis Mezoo Trailing Red This tropical succulent plant is one of the best plants for hanging baskets.